Images in Nuke and NukeStudio can be viewed with different display transformations applied. These transformations take an image from the linear colourspace that Nuke uses internally to an output device’s colourspace. The transformations are defined in the OCIO configuration file as device-specific look-up-tables (LUTs).

This article describes how to apply custom LUTs in the Node Graph Viewer in Nuke/NukeX as well as the Timeline Viewer in NukeStudio/Hiero, outlining the differences.

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Nuke's Node Graph Viewer

To apply a custom display transformation in the Viewer you need to register a new Viewer Process that uses your custom LUT. How this can be done is described in detail in the Creating Custom Viewer Processes section of the Nuke Online Help.

SETUP

This example uses a AlexaV3LogC to Rec709 LUT for the custom Viewer Process, by creating a Gizmo and registering it as a Viewer Process as described in the Using a Gizmo as a Custom Viewer Process section of the Nuke Online Help.

The Gizmo consists of an OCIOColorSpace node to transform the image colourspace from linear to AlexaV3LogC, and an OCIOFileTransform node using a LUT from the Arri LUT Generator to take the colourspace from AlexaV3LogC to Rec709.

The Gizmo content would look like:

Once the Gizmo is registered as a Viewer Process, it will be available as a display transform in the Viewer Process menu as shown:

NukeStudio's Timeline Viewer

For the Timeline Viewer on the NukeStudio side, the same display transform can only be added by modifying the OCIO configuration file. The nuke-default configuration can be found in the Nuke installation directory under:

plugins\OCIOConfigs\configs\nuke-default

SETUP

1. Copy the config.ocio file as well as the “luts” folder into a convenient location, for example:

Home\your-user\Nuke\OCIO

2. Place the custom LUT to be used as a display transform inside the luts folder

3. Edit the config.ocio file in a text editor as described below.

To mimic the Viewer Process from the Nuke example above, add the following colourspace definition to the end of the config.ocio file: